Robert Johnson – Hellhound On My Trail (Guitar)

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As recorded by Robert Johnson (1937 release) Robert Johnson played this song in an Open Em-Tuning (E B E G B E). Here it is arranged for Standard Tuning. [Intro] E7 Am E E7/D A/C# Am/C E7 [Verse 1]
  E                            B7
I got to keep movin', I got to keep movin'

              E               E7    A/C#   Am/C         E7
Blues fallin' down like hail, blues fallin' down like hail

E7
Umm mmm mmm mmm

                                    A/C#         Am/C   E E7 A/C#  E7
Blues fallin' down like hail, blues fallin' down like hail

           B7
And the day keeps on worryin' me

                               E7 E7/D      A/C#     Am/C E E7/D
There's a hellhound on my trail,  hellhound on my trail

A/C#      Am/C      E7
Hellhound on my trail
[Verse 2]
        E                           B7
If today was Christmas Eve, if today was Christmas Eve

                             E E7/D A/C# E7
And tomorrow was Christmas Day

E7
If today was Christmas Eve and tomorrow was Christmas Day

    A/C#               Am/C      E7
Aw, wouldn't we have a time, baby?

            B7
All I would need my little sweet rider

                            E7/D A/C# Am/C E   E7/D     A/C#   Am/C E/B
Just to pass the time away, huh  huh,       to pass the time away
[Verse 3]
                 E
You sprinkled hot foot powder, mmm mmm, around my door

   E7/D   A/C#  Am/C E/B  E7
All around my door

                                                             E7/D A/C# Am/C E/B E7
You sprinkled hot foot powder all around your daddy's door, hmm hmm hmm

                B7
It keep me with ramblin' mind, rider every old place I go

E     E7/D      A/C# Am/C E E7 A/C# Am/C E7
 Every old place I go
[Verse 4]
         E
I can tell the wind is risin' the leaves tremblin' on the tree

                    E7/D A/C# Am/C E/B E7
Tremblin' on the tree

E7
I can tell the wind is risin', leaves tremblin' on the tree

    E7/D A/C# Am/C E/B E E7
Hmm hmm hmm mmm

      B7                                                  E  E7/D A/C#
All I need's my little sweet woman and to keep my company, hey hey hey hey

Am/C       E7
My company